Camp Lee was a Grand Rapids, Michigan marshalling place during the Civil War, located in what is now the Central High School area, corner of Fountain and College NE. Men from Grand Rapids and the surrounding Western Michigan area gathered there for a short time before being sent to other camps to be mustered into service. This camp also served as a temporary holding place for recruits under arrest for a variety of crimes, such as absent without leave, drunkenness, theft, etc.

S.A. Sheldon is one of the signatories at the bottom of some pages, as First Lieutenant. No research has yet been done to determine if he is the Captain Sheldon who later is said to have kept these documents and passed them on to Dr. A.C. Sheldon.

A document authored by Colonel N.J. Hall was previously attached to the inside back cover of this Guard Report. Colonel Norman Jonathon Hall was born in New York in 1837, but moved with his family to East Raisinville, Monroe Co., Michigan. He was an 1859 graduate of West Point Military Academy. He served with distinction during the Civil War, in spite of chronic health problems. He died in 1867. See the fuller biography by David Dorsey Finney, Jr., included in this collection. Hall’s brief time in Grand Rapids is mentioned in this biography.